HYDERABAD: The first Covid-19 patient, who had received plasma therapy, has fully recovered at isolation ward in Liaquat University Hospital (LUH) and is ready to be discharged as 62 more people......
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Zafar Mirza said on Friday that the government will make wearing face masks mandatory in public places, adding that a notification in this regard......
Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan on Friday said that domestic flight operations will resume from tomorrow (May 16) after a nearly two-month-long suspension.In a video message, Sarwar said......
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Friday cut its benchmark interest rate by 100 basis points to eight per cent, the fourth time it has cut rates since the coronavirus pandemic hit two months......
India has lost two weeks in its bid to get a picture of the spread of the coronavirus in its population because of poor Chinese testing kits, a member of a national task force said, complicating a......
China on Friday urged the United States to meet it halfway and strengthen cooperation in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic after US President Donald Trump threatened to sever bilateral......
Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Friday warned that the number of coronavirus cases in the country will continue to rise.He, however, assured the nation that......
The Pakistan Meteorological Department on Friday announced that Karachi will experience another heatwave from May 17 to 22.In a notification, the department apprised the Karachi mayor, governor,......
The mopeds are back in Hanoi, cars once more clog Karachi's streets and gridlock has returned to Beijing's ring roads — as lockdowns caused by the coronavirus ease, the temporary respite from traffic......
US health authorities issued an alert Thursday over a rare but sometimes deadly autoimmune condition among children that is believed to be linked to Covid-19.The illness, which the Centres for......
The science of sewage surveillance could be deployed in countries across the world to help monitor the spread of national epidemics of Covid-19 while reducing the need for mass testing, scientists......
NOWSHERA: Pakistan Tobacco Company (PTC) closed its offices in Akora Khattak here on Thursday after 44 of its employees tested positive for coronavirus.“The company has specially hired services of a......
PESHAWAR: Experts have advised journalists to adopt protective measures and use other sources of communication instead of visiting field during reporting on Covid-19 to stay safe from the......
THE lockdown debate has turned into an even heavier exchange of argument with the easing of restrictions. The officials, the shopkeepers, the media, which has long turned into everyone’s favourite......
KARACHI: The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) reported on Thursday an increase in Covid-19 infection among patients of dialysis, transplant and cancer.“The recent data reveals a......
KARACHI: Hysab Kytab, a mobile app aimed to help people stay within budget and spend and live better by managing their finances better, organised a webinar on the topic of Covid-19 and its impact on......
KARACHI: A local leader of Maulana Fazal-ur-Rahman’s Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan (JUI-F) was critically wounded in an armed attack near his home in the Pak Colony area on Thursday in what investigators......
LAHORE: Swords were drawn and the social media echoed with war cries after a PML-N provincial lawmaker on Thursday sounded the battle drums by likening her leader Maryam Nawaz Sharif to the hero of......
LAHORE: Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Zulfiqar Hameed says there is a complete lockdown due to coronavirus in the city on Friday (today) and strict action will be taken against the violators of......
KARACHI: The chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has signed a reference relating to an inquiry into the Rs18 billion scam of the Fazaia Housing Scheme allegedly launched by private......
KARACHI: Sindh Education and Labour Minister Saeed Ghani has said that after promoting children from classes one to eight they will also do the same for the students of classes nine, 10, 11 and 12.......
KARACHI: With a ban imposed on all kind of religious processions and gatherings by the Sindh government, the Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari appealed to the people on Thursday......
LAHORE: Taking action against blatant violation of the Covid-19 precautionary measures, the government on Thursday sealed as many as 215 retail shops, including a known shopping centre near Model......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday suspended sentence of a man convicted for being part of an international nexus of child pornographers and released him on bail.A judicial magistrate had on......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has once again made a contact with former Pakistan captain Salim Malik, sending a questionnaire relating to a pending inquiry against him, since 2011.Sources......
BERLIN: With players’ voices bouncing off the empty stands and the leathery thud of the ball audible across the pitch, Germany’s Bundesliga will have a very different feel when it resumes on......
DHAKA: Former South Africa skipper Faf du Plessis said quarantining players for two weeks before and after the ICC Twenty20 World Cup could allow it to take place in Australia this year despite the......
TOKYO: Thousands of years ago, a group of people took a walk in what is now Tanzania. The footprints they left behind are now offering insights into ancient human life.The group of more than 400......
WUHAN: Nervous residents of China’s pandemic epicentre of Wuhan queued up across the city to be tested for the coronavirus on Thursday after a new cluster of cases sparked a mass screening......
HANOI: Vietnam has mounted an all-out effort to save the life of its most critically ill coronavirus patient, a British pilot who works for Vietnam Airlines, the national carrier.Through aggressive......
QUETTA: Leaders of opposition parties have alleged that the provincial coalition government has miserably failed to take steps to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic and its affairs are being run through......
ISLAMABAD: Japan has decided to release the fifth tranche of assistance worth $4 million to Pakistan to support its efforts to combat Covid-19.Prior to this grant assistance, the Japanese government......
ISLAMABAD: To ensure strict implementation of anti-smuggling measures, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday asked provincial chief secretaries to prepare lists of those found involved in smuggling......
ISLAMABAD: Former nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan claimed before the Supreme Court on Thursday that he was forced to sign his consent in an earlier habeas corpus petition as a result of which......
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan Alyani presided over a meeting on Thursday to monitor measures taken by the divisional and district authorities to contain the Covid-19 and locust......
COX’S BAZAAR: A Rohingya has become the first person to test positive for coronavirus from the vast refugee camps in Bangladesh that house almost a million people, officials said on Thursday.Health......
ISLAMABAD: Stating that the coronavirus cases are under-reported in the country, the main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has challenged the official figures and data and claimed that......
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) Justice Athar Minallah on Thursday directed the Islamabad police to withdraw the personnel deployed for so-called VIP duties as because of......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Thursday expressed concern over new Israeli unity government’s plan to annex parts of occupied West Bank and underscored similarities between Palestine and Kashmir......
ISLAMABAD: The National Commission for Minorities at its first meeting on Thursday focused on issues and problems faced by religious minorities in India.Presided over by Chairman of the Commission......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was very disappointed in China over its failure to contain the novel coronavirus, and that the worldwide pandemic had cast a pall over his......
KARACHI: The opening of authorised car showrooms from Monday after easing of lockdowns has not generated any fresh booking of locally-assembled cars.Dealership owners usually experience brisk sales......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Thursday saw the government and opposition members trading corruption charges, with Minister for Information Shibli Faraz saying that some parties wanted the country’s......
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Commerce Razak Dawood on Thursday appeared before an inquiry commission investigating a sugar scam and recorded his statement on the decisions......
NEW DELHI: To expand the drug’s access, Gilead Sciences said this week it had signed non-exclusive licensing pacts with five generic drug-makers based in India and Pakistan, allowing them to make and......
KARACHI: Moody’s has placed Pakistan’s long-term B3 ratings on review for downgrade as it expects the country to request bilateral debt service relief from G-20 creditors under the recently-announced......
ISLAMABAD: Almost a week after the National Coordination Committee’s decision to cancel all the board examinations in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, federal Minister for Education Shafqat Mahmood......
ISLAMABAD: In an interesting development in the judge video case, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday asked the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to explain as to why action has not been......
ISLAMABAD: Amid rising cases of Covid-19 and after getting reports of continued violations of standard operating procedures (SOPs) and guidelines for prevention of coronavirus by people from almost......
THE dastardly attacks which took the lives of over 40 mostly Hazara civilians in Kabul and Nangarhar earlier this week barely raised an eyebrow in the Pakistani mainstream. The attack on the......
Over a dozen people barged into and vandalised the isolation ward at Karachi's Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), late on Thursday evening, after a coronavirus patient being treated there......
